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Briefing note

From Cyclone to Food Crisis: Ensuring the needs of women and girls are prioritized in the Cyclone Idai and Kenneth responses

12/07/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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After the double tragedy and devastation of Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and Cyclone Kenneth six weeks later, the people of Mozambique now face yet another crisis: a food security crisis. At least 433,000 people have had their land and crops partly or totally destroyed. Women and girls face particular challenges in the wake of the […]

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Briefing paper

Sahel : Luttre contre les inégalités pour répondre aux défis du développement et de la sécurité

03/07/2019

2 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Malgré son potentiel de développement, le Sahel fait face à une crise sans précédent. Aux enjeux de développement préexistants s’ajoute aujourd’hui une crise multiforme, sécuritaire, humanitaire et environnementale. Cette crise prend aussi racine dans les inégalités et un sentiment d’injustice profondément ancré, en particulier chez les jeunes. Les inégalités sont criantes et se manifestent dans […]

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Discussion paper

The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: What does it mean for multi-mandated organizations?

26/06/2019

4 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Climate change, conflict, growing inequality and escalating humanitarian needs are galvanizing questions about the effectiveness and efficiency of current humanitarian and development programming. Accompanying this are structural shifts across the aid system, which are changing how aid is planned and financed. Under the ‘Triple Nexus’ this will have profound implications for what we do, how […]

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Discussion paper

Fighting Inequality to Beat Poverty: The role of UK international development

04/06/2019

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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UK international development actors – from government to private sector and NGOs – can play a key role in fighting extreme economic inequality to beat poverty in developing countries. This paper shares key principles, policies and programmes that have emerged from Oxfam’s work with partners around the world in recent years, so as to encourage […]

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Briefing note

Leave No One Behind: Ensure the needs of women and girls are prioritized at the Beira Conference 2019

31/05/2019

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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In the wake of cyclone Idai, more than half of the estimated 750,000 people requiring immediate help are women. Their vulnerabilities are both extensive and multi-sectoral, yet funding to address these needs falls far short. The Beira Conference in May/June 2019 provides a critical opportunity to invest in transformative change so that women and girls […]

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Briefing paper

Ten Years After the Global Food Price Crisis, Rural Women Still Bear the Brunt of Poverty and Hunger

29/03/2019

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Ten years after the global food price crisis, women are still disproportionately disadvantaged by structural and emerging market factors that mean that they bear the brunt of poverty and hunger. Women and smallholder farmers in particular have been negatively affected by trade policy, competitive markets, and the accumulation of private power. There is, however, insufficient […]

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Briefing paper

Unfair Harvest: The state of rice in Asia

20/03/2019

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Small-scale producers grow most of the rice in Asia, providing food security, jobs and income across the region. However, a combination of worsening inequality in food value chains and the crippling impacts of climate change are leaving rice farming systems at a critical juncture. These challenges threaten the viability of rice production that underpins the […]

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Evaluation report

Gender Equality and Resilient Development: Evidence from Oxfam’s Resilient Development Portfolio

05/03/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This Evidence Brief synthesises evidence of how Oxfam is working to support increased gender equality so that women and girls and other marginalised groups can be involved in shaping a more resilient future. It highlights how such efforts have improved resilient development outcomes for women and their communities, recognising that much work is still to […]

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Briefing note

Powering the Transition: World Bank and other IFI energy lending in Asia

10/10/2018

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This year, the World Bank is holding its Annual Meetings in Asia. This is a region that will be key to the success of the global energy transition, and at the same time has much to lose if it does not happen fast enough, because its people are so vulnerable to climate change. The most […]

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Discussion paper

Strengthening Nationally Determined Contributions to Catalyze Actions that Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

01/10/2018

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52 pages long

Languages: English

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Early and ambitious action to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) is essential to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. SLCPs include methane, hydrofluorocarbons, black carbon, and tropospheric ozone. Actions to reduce these highly potent pollutants help avoid crossing important thresholds, such as a 1.5°C temperature rise above pre-industrial levels, […]

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